GNU bug report logs - #890
Problem using `etc/emacs.bash' with EmacsW32

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Anonymous Sender <anonymous <at> remailer.metacolo.com>

Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 20:05:07 UTC

Severity: normal

Fixed in version 24.1

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #20 received at submit <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: "find lulu" <tpeplt <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#890: Problem using `etc/emacs.bash' with EmacsW32
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 11:39:52 -0400

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>>* I am attempting to use the shell script `emacs.bash' that is provided*
>
> Could you explain why you don't ust use emacsclient directly (together
> with its -a argument)?

Your question prompts the question "Why does `etc/emacs.bash' exist at all?"

The reason for `emacs.bash' to exist is to provide a single, consistent
command for editing a file from the bash shell prompt, namely, 'edit'.

It is certainly possible to use alternatives to avoid the problems described,
but if `etc/emacs.bash' is to be included in the Emacs distribution then it
should work for that distribution.

In brief, here are the two problems restated (for EmacsW32):

1. `etc/emacs.bash' does not check for the file `~/.emacs.d/server/server'
   that is created when `server-start' is invoked from EmacsW32.  As a result,
   `emacsclient' is not invoked by the shell function `edit' that is created
   when `etc/emacs.bash' is sourced.

2. When `server-start' (in `lisp/server.el') is invoked during the Emacs
   shutdown process, it does not remove the file `~/.emacs.d/server/server'
   that it created when it was initially invoked.  Consequently, additional
   calls to the shell function 'edit' do not work properly -- namely, `edit'
   should invoke `emacs' instead of `emacsclient' when there is no instance
   of the emacs's server running.

These problems should be fixed so that `edit' works for EmacsW32 as it does
for Emacs on other platforms.  Some possible fixes were suggested in the
original problem report.

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